"When Picasso died I read in a magazine that the had made four thousand masterpieces in his lifetime and I thought, "Gee, I could do that in a day." So I started. And then I found out, "Gee it takes more than a day to do four thousand pictures." You see, the way I do them, with my technique, I really thought I could do four thousand in a day. And they'd all be masterpieces because they'd all be the same painting. And I started and I got up to about five hundred and then I stopped. But it took more than a day, I think it took a month. So at five hundred a month, it would have taken me abuot eight months to do four thousand masterpieces. It was disillusioning for me, to realize it would take me that long."
--Andy Warhol. "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol"
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